Anterior Bavarian Forest
The Anterior Bavarian Forest (german: Vorderer Bayerischer Wald), also variously called the Vorderer Forest, Vorderer Wald or Danube Hills, is part of the Bavarian Forest, a low mountain range in Germany. Name In older geographical-regional literature the German name ''Vordere Bayerische Wald'' was applied to the whole southern chain of the Bavarian/Bohemian mountains between the Danube and the Regen, from the Keilberg Depression near Regensburg to the Austro-German border near Passau. Bernhard Grueber and Adalbert Müller described it in 1846 as the ''äußern Wald'' ('outer forest') "named the Regen Mountains by the geographers". Others chose the name Danube Hills (''Donaugebirge'') instead. Frequently this region was even equated with the Bavarian Forest and contrasted with the Bohemian Forest. Beer, in his work ''Der Böhmerwald und Bayerische Wald'' in 1925, talked of a "major prelude to the Bohemian Forest“. Even today, many maps only label the lower forest as the Bava ...
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